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Canterbury Affordable Sections
Canterbury Affordable Sections is an organisation established to: … facilitate and provide governance for the development of a series of affordable section development projects for Red Zone home...
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News from Nowhere
Good news helps raise the spirits, especially if there is an element of humour in it. Leanne Curtis of CanCERN fame, and formerly of the Avonside Red Zone, has moved out into the middle of nowhere near...
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Red Zone maintenance
In his weekly update released yesterday Roger Sutton covered a number of issues important to those living in the Red zones or nearby. Extracts from the update appear below. Some of the content needs to...
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Cooperative Sections – affordable sections meeting
Cooperative Sections is a project to identify areas where affordable land is available and work co-operatively to purchase and develop land for housing. From their website: The solution – Co-operate...
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Saving plants in the Red zones
Tania Boerlage, who lives at Cust, is a plant lover setting up a group to save plants from abandoned properties. This following from an e-mail from Tania: Hi, My name is Tania and I live near Cust,...
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Village people – a report from Linwood Park Temporary Earthquake Village
David Haywood and his family, formerly of Avonside Drive, have moved into temporary accommodation while their lovely old Edwardian villa is relocated and repaired in Dunsandel. For them the temporary...
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Relocating Red Zone houses
Roger Sutton’s weekly Update released yesterday contains the following interesting snippet (at the end of the 7th paragraph) on Red Zone houses: CERA is looking into the possibility of relocating...
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Insurance issues for older houses.
The Otago Daily Times reports that insurers in Dunedin are declining to insure houses built before 1935. It may be that this is the case in Christchurch too? From the beginning of the ODT article: As...
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Measuring the impacts of the Canterbury earthquakes on the residential...
Lincoln University are conducting an on-line survey to see how prospective home buyers view the risk associated with land zoning (TC1, TC2, TC3) and the likelihood of flooding, how this affects the...
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Avonside Blog update
On Tuesday of last week Blog Central relocated to Kaiapoi. It was a somewhat fraught experience with Southern Response doing their best, but not able to keep up with the pace of events. The law firm...
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